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it would be easy enough to take a picture of the contents of my bag, because Munchkin's unwinding routine after daycare involves methodically removing every. single. item. from my computer bag. And then putting random stuff back in.

Chocolatlandia! That is SO OUR NEXT ROADTRIP! But I think we would probably eat all the currency before getting across the border. And then we would probably eat the border guard (cos he'd be made of chocolate), and then we'd be deported for eating lamp posts. [note we'd be deported for the lamp posts, not the worker b/c I've heard it's like Michigan where they pay you to maim and kill their road workers]. But regardless of the punishments we certainly would accrue, it's a risk I'm willing to take.

One of my dearest friends cannot stand the word moist. It grosses her out entirely. So, of course, I must endlessly torture her by putting moist into my conversation as much as possible. We even had a game in law school where, while the professors were employing the Socratic method, we would be awarded points based on the number of times we could work "moist" into our answers. You would have hated us.

Oh my goodness. There once was a time that I carried expensive mascara and concealer a credit card to rack up a bar bill, but these days, my bag doubles as a diaper bag and now you will probably find one too many walmart receipts for diapers and wipes and spare diapers and a clip to tie back my dishelleved hair so my son stops pulling it.

Hee hee. I kinda like the word moist. it has a satifyingly squishy sound that makes it perfect for dryly understating the fact that, say, your shoes are sopping wet and your feet are squishing in puddles.

Anyhow, my PURSE is much bigger and fuller. I might not be able to do this, in fact. It's akin to a suitcase right now because I haven't emptied it in a month or two and it is rather, um, vast.

And probably contains some rocks, since we are really into rocks in our house, too. We have a collection that numbers just under 100 at press time.

First of all, your bag is fabulous. Second of all, I hate hate the word moist. Third of all, my favorite thing in my bag is this little pink pig on a key chain I got a Bed Bath and Beyond that oink oinks and flashes when you push it. It works wonders with a 16-month-old during lunch.

Reading back through the comments and seeing the words "crotch" and "moist" reminds me that I learned a delightfully disgusting and raunchy Aussie slang word when I was reading Cloudstreet by Tim Winton (a gift from an Aussie friend) last night.

And that word was? Crotchpong. As in, "Her swimsuit smelled of her hammy crotchpong."

Gross, no? Kinda makes "moist" and "tip" seem benign, huh?

*and yes, I know this comment relates to this post really not at all except that I am very susceptible to flight of ideas and somehow from "moist" I ended up at crotchpong*

I loved this.I love seeing what's in other people's bags. LOVE it (though I personally have both bags and purses). I have always loved going through other people's bags to see what they have - try their lipglosses, etc.I'm so going to do this when I get home and have energy.

This reminds me of an essay assignment I gave when I was teaching comp one year. The text was The Things They Carried and I had the class do an analysis of what they carried in their bookbags. Some of them were actually interesting...

Y'know I was reading this and thinking, "People don't like the word 'moist' because it can apply to both items and anatomy." And then...there is was in a comment. Moist. Crotch. I laughed, and laughed, and laughed some more.

I have three bags on the go right now. I move my wallet around from one to the other. All have some sort of lip gloss. All have a size 5 diaper. But none have any wipes.

am trying to catch up on blog reading since my return to north america. Love your comments about blogher (and those pictures! oh my!) And may I just say that our husbands are the exact same size. Well, height, anyways. No one could accuse mine of being too skinny.

I loved this post and idea so much I totally copied it, but for people's offices- I shared what I'm hiding in my office and I would love to see what others have in theirs! My purse really isn't all that interesting, or I would have participated in this.

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